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...There are huge efficiency gains in our business model compared to the Coop’s,” Yagan said. “I think that more and more people are going to be asking themselves when they think about buying a textbook at the Coop, ‘Why am I paying 20 or 30 extra bucks to wait in line...
DIED. ROBERT HEILBRONER, 85, refreshingly accessible economics historian whose 1953 book, The Worldly Philosophers, remains the country's second best-selling economics textbook (after Paul Samuelson's Economics); in New York City. In some 20 books, he brought to life the ideas of such thinkers as Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes, emphasizing that economics needed to be examined in a global context. "I'm really not an economist," he said. "I bring an economic point of view to social and political problems...
...Hakim's new science textbook is meant for kids, but even a well-read adult might learn a thing or two--for instance, that Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras was a fashion trailblazer who insisted on wearing trousers, then considered an Eastern style, while his countrymen were still in robes. Such are the details that pepper the narrative of Hakim's The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way (Smithsonian Books; 282 pages). Hakim's chatty style and character-driven stories have won her legions of fans. At age 11, Ethan Denny in Athens, Ga., wrote...
Risk in Perspective is every student’s dream textbook. It contains a broad spectrum of “funnies,” from biting political cartoons, to sophisticated sketches from The New Yorker Collection, to knee-slapping strips like Garfield, FoxTrot and Calvin and Hobbes...
...asked “why won’t they let us push all of the professors to use the previous year’s textbook edition instead of the newest one which is double the price?” And “why won’t they let us organize discounted intersession and spring break packages?” And “why won’t they let us try to be involved in teaching fellow and faculty hiring committees...